Kate concentrates her practice in environmental law, real estate, dispute resolution, and complex litigation. She has more than twenty years of experience focused primarily on problem-solving for environmental regulation, contamination and cleanup projects, and works as a third-party neutral as well as an attorney in private practice.
Kate serves as national counsel for clients with CERCLA, RCRA, CWA, CAA, UST, Brownfields and other environmental regulatory program challenges. She acts as the legal representative on multi-disciplinary client teams faced with environmental problems and litigation projects, and participates in strategy and decision-making dialogues involving business, technical, supervisory and management representatives. Her skills allow her to function as her clients’ representative in multi-party groups engaged in litigation and administrative proceedings, and she attends to the coordination and communication tasks needed to keep clients informed and capable of decision making.
In addition to representing clients in environmental litigation and cleanup cases and real estate projects, Kate is approved as a third party neutral (mediator, arbitrator, etc.) for roster panels maintained by the U.S. Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and U.S. Arbitration & Mediation - Midwest.
Since 2004 Kate has been an adjunct professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where she teaches mediation, dispute resolution and multi-party negotiation. She serves as a frequent speaker and moderator at national and local bar association meetings and conferences, and is the former Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) Coordinating Group on ADR. In 2011, she was one of the Missouri Lawyer's Weekly Women's Justice Award recipients in the Business Practioner category.